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We promised you some commentary on Geo-Fencing. Here it is. I’m gonna keep it short because while it’s a promising feature, it’s probably the most overhyped thing since… well… something of very little residential value attempting to be of very large residential value. Geofencing is, in essence, an invisible border around a position based on […]

We’ve been doing access control systems for a long time. The majority of them are controlled by cards and/or fobs, and some of them are in some way integrated with your alarm system. There are two main goals of these types of systems. The first is to only allow those with a valid access card […]

So there’s this device we’ve used for a while now called a Connect2Go. Anyone doing anything with alarm system networking knows what it is. Many of our customers know what they are. It’s nifty and easy to use and adds a lot of value to an existing alarm system. We also have this device […]

Yep. Here we go. Welcome to my soapbox. This is the part where my hours of reading, testing, interviewing and communicating come into play. This is gonna be a short article. The reality of this situation is that we have one side, the home automation side, telling us that security and home automation control can […]

We keep getting questions about motion detection and proximity lights and whether they work or not. The answer; Yes. Sort of. Personally I’m of the belief that security lights are only half as effective as they used to be. Most burglars approach your home expecting that you have them anyways. This allows them to show […]

So let’s talk locks. As in, locks as part of home automation. I’ve been experimenting with our new toy over the last couple of days. You probably saw the little starter video on our Facebook page. Yes, it does lock. Yes, it also unlocks. All the little features you’d expect are there, including the audio […]

You run a business. You probably have employees. Or tenants. Or contracted staff. Or a combination of all of those. You also have multiple rooms. Some of those rooms are more sensitive than others. Some of those rooms are private. Some of them are occupied by tenants, some are used by employees, and others are […]

It’s been a bit since I wrote anything here. We’ve been paying a great deal of attention to the Z-Wave compatible devices we can use with the Resolution panel and it’s getting in the way of the creative process. Which is fine, actually, because our focus is on your locks and those are kind of […]

FYI, there are apparently new processing rules for interest rates on credit cards. Did you know that? I didn’t know that. Well. I didn’t know that until about 50,000,000 different processing companies called and told me they just wanted to make sure we were taking advantage of the new rates. Let’s answer these questions right […]

We aren’t quite at our home automation portion of the Helix roll out yet, but we’re getting there. Resolution is constantly adding new products to their home device lines. The engineers over there must be cyborgs or something. Would explain a few things…. It’s time now to talk about access control, though. This is a […]